Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Michael Robinson wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >>     GNOME then adopted ORBit, which has two wins: it's in C, and (this is
> >>     the biggy) it has provisions to shortcut parameter marshalling,
> >
> >    My experience is that for pretty much every pro, there is a
> >con...what are we losing with ORBit that we'd have with mico?  Short
> >and/or long term?  mico is reputed to be Corba 2.2 compliant..orbit?
> 
> The big con for ORBit, short term:
> 
>     % cd /usr/src/gnome/ORBit-0.3.0
>     % find . -name "*.c" -exec grep "Not yet implemented" {} \; | wc
>          857    2613   30302
> 
> That's 857 items specified in the IDL for ORBit that are currently empty
> functions.
> 
> I think long-term, with the financial backing of RedHat, and the key role
> it plays in the GNOME, I think ORBit will be the premier open-source ORB.
Can we do the first implemntation using MICO and convert over
later, if the need arises?  Or are those 857 items not important?

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org